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When Margalo flies away, Stuart leaves the city in a quest to find her. He acquires a gasoline-powered model car and travels the country. He finds employment as a substitute teacher from time to time. The most notable event includes finding a love interest in his own size, Harriet Ames. They go to a single date before he leaves to continue his quest. The novel has no resolution.
''Stuart Little'' was adapted to a namesake film in 1999, which combined live-action and computer animation. The voice for the main character was provided by [[Michael J. Fox]]. It was a box office hit, so naturally it received sequels: ''Stuart Little 2'' (2002) and ''Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild'' (2006). The second film was more of the same and did reasonably well at the box office. The third film was fully computer-animated, also directly released to video. An [[Animated Adaptation|animated series]] was created in 2003 but only lasted a single season, 13 episodes.
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=== Some tropes seen in either the books or the films include: ===
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'''Snowbell:''' Yeah. In fact, good news. I no longer need a litter box.<br />
'''Monte:''' Mop up on aisle three! }}
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Played with in the films. Snowbell starts out very antagonistic toward Stuart, even trying to eat him and kill him, but later is shown as a [[Jerk
* [[Description Cut]]: In ''Stuart Little 2:''
{{quote| '''Stuart:''' Don't worry about Snowbell, he wouldn't hurt a fly.<br />
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* [[Happily Adopted]]: Stuart, in the films. Somewhat averted in that there is initially a little sibling tension within his new family.
* [[Happily Married]]: The Little parents, to the point where they each finished the other's sentences. The moment they couldn't tell what the other was thinking led to slight panic, but all got resolved.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Michael J. Fox]] played Stuart in the movie.
** [[The Lion King|Timon]] / [[The Birdcage|Albert]] was Snowbell in the movie
** The mean cats in the first movie are : [[Jumanji
** And in the TV series, Stuart was [[Danny Phantom]].
** James Woods ([[Hercules|Hades]], [[Recess:
** Speaking of ''[[Recess]]'', Principal Prickly, Miss Grotke, and the yo-yo instructor were all suporting characters in the first movie.
** In Brazil, Rodrigo Santoro (best known internationally as [[
* [[In Name Only]]: The books were set in the late 1940s, Stuart was born from a human mother rather than adopted, and only the boat race in the first movie bears any resemblance to the events of the book.
* [[Interspecies Adoption]]: As mentioned above, the book claims that Stuart was born from a human mother, but the movie explains this as the reason why Stuart has human parents to begin with.
* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: In the original books, Stuart's car has an invisibility button.
* [[Jerk
* [[Lilliputians]]: Stuart meets one in the book.
* [[Magic Realism]]
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* [[No Ending]]: The book ends with zero resolution; Stuart simply affirms his determination to find his friend, roll proverbial credits. Apparently E.B. White was concerned about his health, and decided to end the book at the best place he could find rather than keep going with it and risk leaving it unfinished at an even less satisfying point.
* [[Oblivious Adoption]]: The films have a mouse legally adopted by humans.
* [[Raised
* [[Surprisingly Functional Toys]]: Stuart drives an off-the-shelf RC car around, as opposed to the book version, where it was custom made.
* [[Smelly Skunk]]: Reeko from the third film. {{spoiler|Ultimately is used on the Beast in the end.}}
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